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11/02/2008

Pallet Mover on Sixth Street

These are tough times and even the LAPD knows it. At least, that is what I imagine may have prompted the cruiser in the far right lane to not see what my camera caught last week as the guy with the stack of pallets wheeled uninterrupted to one of the pallet recyclers on Alameda Street:



-BusTard

10/28/2008

Sitting in The Middle of 5th Street

Good thing I had my camera to document the foolish position that best describes sitting in the middle of a one-way street facing away from traffic!
5th Street Centre

-BusTard

08/22/2008

MTA Art. Aviation Station the Green Line. Westchester.

At the Aviation Station in Westchester (Wikipedia has the zip code as 90048. It's 90045. That's about a few hundred thousand dollars difference in real estate world. Looking at the economy, probably about half a million dollars difference currently. Wiki can be wrong. And no one pays over one million dollars to live by the airport.) The Bus Bench went down to see specifically the quote by William Burroughs, but his quote had disappeared. We assumed the death of that quote was owing to vandals, but in his place we saw pieces of poetry by Kerouac, Ellison, Hughes and Ginsberg.

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Rail stop snaps. Wild Card.

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Red Line station near Los Angeles City College and the Braille Institute.

08/21/2008

Bus Stop Snaps. Survey of Grand St. 9 of 9.

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Grand at Pico in downtown Los Angeles. D

08/20/2008

Bus Stop Snaps. Survey of Grand St. 8 of 9.

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Grand at Pico in downtown Los Angeles. C

08/19/2008

Bus Stop Snaps. Survey of Grand St. 7 of 9.

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Grand at Pico in downtown Los Angeles. B

08/14/2008

Bus Stop Snaps. Survey of Grand St. 4 of 9.

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Grand at Olympic in downtown Los Angeles.

08/13/2008

Bus Stop Snaps. Survey of Grand St. 3 of 9.

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Grand at 9th in downtown Los Angeles.

08/12/2008

Bus Stop Snaps. Survey of Grand St. 2 of 9.

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Grand at 8th Street in downtown Los Angeles

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    Title of Exhibition: Post-Post Apocalypse
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    Vlad Gallegos, Joey Grana, Browne Molyneaux and Randall Fleming

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